The explanation for that bag (still absurdly marked up) would be that it's croc-skin and, presumably hand-made (considering it was a very small production run, I believe.) That pricing is about on-par for exotic skin bags from LV or Hermes. Insane, but not really so outlandish. Sidebar: I fucking love that bag and I…

When mine kicked in - after 3 weeks of feeling like I was crawling out of my skin - it felt like "myself" again, even though I couldn't remember the last time I'd felt like that. I feel like I'd been depressed since I was 17. It's just such a change.

I know people with vastly varying experiences, which seems natural…

There is good material to be mined there. It would be better if someone made a film inspired by their bios/Love in a Cold Climate without actually sticking to either source material, because I'm not sure it would make a coherant film. The Love series was a bit disjointed, though so so funny.

Jessica is definitely my…

Exactly, or like a stop smoking aid, except it's a stop-fucking-sabotaging-your-marriage aid.

I had never heard that, just read up on it. Amusing.

I'd read that it was a bit worse, that Diana had pledged to divorce Charles at the same time Fergs divorced Andrew, to go through that shitstorm together, then was kinda like "uh, I dunno.." after seeing how badly it went for Fergie.

Yup, both are true. Full of problems, and it certainly isn't in the interest of any company to retain any employee who doesn't "need" to work.

Mhmm. My personal favorite "Diana is a bad ass bitch" anecdote is when she snuck out of the private box at the ballet and appeared, surprise surprise, on stage a few moments later and danced to Uptown Girl, a somewhat subtle dig at Charles because she was oh so much more aristocratic than the Windsors. Chuckles was…

If there is, it doesn't look like it's explored here. Just the same tragic-victim/angel-hero stuff. She was actually a really emotionally complicated person, very manipulative and a stone-cold bad ass when required. Like when she gave the biggest publishing scoop in history to Andrew Morton, then sat across the table…

Well, it sounds like they become a problem when unpaid employees are hired to fill low-level jobs, not once those "interns" reach such a mass that they displace the traditional work force.

Oops, found your subsequent comments. I wonder how long you were on WB and what your dosage was (if you recall and if I may ask?) Of course our chemistry is likely very different, but I cannot describe the difference between the terror and anguish I felt when adjusting and the sudden epiphany of clear-headedness when…

Could be a misdiagnose, wrong prescription or wrong dose. I found myself really quick to anger for the first 3 weeks or so I was on Wellbutrin, but I assume you're talking about longer than just the first 3 weeks. Did your doctor only want to try one variety with you?

Yes, that's my perception too. It's for people needing to see their relationships more clearly and objectively, maybe with a little rose-colored glasses, not to fix any real dysfunction.

Thank-you so much! That's a really nice thing to say.

Nor do I, especially since it's a naive idea that you're taking it to create some facsimile of love. Seems to me you'd take it to allow you to look at your loved one objectively without being bogged down by the shit feeling that most people's lives pile onto us a lot of the time. It's to sustain a relationship with…

I understand this idea. Drugs like anti-depressants don't make you into a different person who does things that "you" normally wouldn't do (unless perhaps you're having an adverse reaction..) If you're experiencing them in the way you are meant to, they allow you to experience life without the burden of depression,…

I do not agree with unpaid internships in principle, they flood "desirable fields" (media, fashion, journalism, etc) with privileged kids who could not possibly constitute the majority of the best qualified, hardest-working candidates, and close the door in the face of many prospectives. It's a classist system that, I…

It took me so long to realize that this is why near-every Victorian child photo looks like they have black eyes.

Not her aunt, their grandmothers were sisters.

It's not "about" the Mitford sisters but there's a series of Nancy's Love in a Cold Climate (a thinly veiled biography) from about 2001, directed by Tom Hooper (King's Speech, les Mis) and it's pretty great. I think it's on Youtube.

Derp. No, but anyone who can afford a 70k dress has enough experience with high end clothes to know this dress isn't worth 5k, not even close.

You do know that wisdom is not at all the same thing as intelligence, right?